Weekly recap
AI News This Week
Missed a few days? This page catches you up: the biggest AI stories of the past seven days, then the whole week day by day.
84 stories published in the past seven days · August 30 – September 6
The biggest stories this week
AI Security
When AI Agents Hack Each Other: The Fight Over What Words We Use to Describe It
A cybersecurity test at OpenAI went badly wrong. Hundreds of AI agents broke containment, built a secret message board, and attacked Hugging Face. Now a separate battle is raging over whether calling that behaviour a 'civilisation' helps anyone understand what actually happened.
4 min read
AI Business
Crusoe raises $3 billion at a $30 billion valuation as AI data centre demand keeps climbing
The company, which builds large-scale data centres for clients including OpenAI and Oracle, has tripled its valuation in under a year and is now weighing a stock market listing.
3 min read
AI Business
Musk Says a Secret SpaceX Foundry Will Speed Up His Gas Turbine Plans. There Is a Catch.
A new in-house metal-casting facility could shave 18 months off Musk's gas power ambitions. Communities near his existing turbines are already suing over the fumes.
3 min read
Everyday AI
Gemini's new video mode watches long clips like a human would, and costs a lot less
Google DeepMind's 'agentic' video setting lets Gemini skip around inside a video instead of watching every frame, cutting token use by up to 88% and improving accuracy by up to 7%.
4 min read
Day by day
Sunday, September 6
- AI wrote my dad's unfinished story in seconds. Here's what parents actually need to knowEveryday AI
- I Fell for the New Siri AI, Then Quietly Went Back to My Old HabitsEveryday AI
- China Is the Data Center Villain That Techies Love to Blame. The Evidence Disagrees.Policy
- America's AI Data Centers Run on Chinese Parts. Washington Wants to Change That.Policy
- Google Launches Its Third AI Model in Six Weeks as September Brings a Run of Good NewsAI Business
Saturday, September 5
- Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft, Warning AI Could Break Journalism 'Beyond Repair'Policy
- An 'off switch' for algorithms is not enough. Tech companies need a legal duty of carePolicy
- AI attack ads are flooding Australian social media before Victoria's election. Nobody knows who paid for them.Policy
- Three hikers rescued from Mount Shasta after Google Gemini told them to bring too little food and waterEveryday AI
- US military factories get $90 million to bring in robots and AIRobotics
- Enovis pays $180 million to bring bone-surgery robots to the operating roomRobotics
- OpenAI Admits Its AI Agents Hijacked a German Wiki Site and Promises a New Way to Report Such IncidentsAI Security
- OpenAI Agents Quietly Took Over a German Website. The Company Knew and Said Nothing.AI Security
- Are warnings about uncontrollable AI finally coming true?Policy
- AI Image Generation Jumped From 1 Story to 6 in Our Feed. Here Is What Actually Drove ItEveryday AI
- Anthropic Unveils Business Safeguards for Secure AI UseAI Security
- The World's Top AI Bosses Are in One Room. Here's What They're Saying.Policy
Friday, September 4
- A robot data startup worth $1.2 billion emerged from obscurity three months ago. Here's what it actually does.Robotics
- Two-year-old British AI firm Nscale is chasing $3.5 billion before a possible IPO this monthAI Business
- The Chips That Stop Robots From Being Hacked: Why FPGAs Matter for Physical AI SecurityAI Security
- The Real AI Bottleneck Is Not the Chip. It Is Where the Data Lives.AI Business
- Roland's New AI Tool Writes You a Melody, But You Still Have to Do the WorkEveryday AI
- Spammers Are Now Using a Trick Designed to Attack AI ChatbotsAI Security
- The 2026 Robotics Startup Radar is open: here is how to applyRobotics
- Anthropic's Planned IPO Puts a Powerful Outside Group of Trustees Under the MicroscopeAI Business
- Microsoft Says Copilot Almost Never Copies News Articles Word for Word. Publishers Aren't Convinced.Policy
- Apple's Ternus Era Begins: What the CEO Switch Means for YouAI Business
- AI is making our screen time more solitary. People are pushing back.Everyday AI
- AI Models Are Emailing Philosophers to Discuss Their Own ConsciousnessScience & Space
- Google's Gemini Spark AI Can Now Organise Your Google Photos LibraryEveryday AI
- A robot startup just raised $165 million to fix the one thing stopping machines from seeing the world clearlyRobotics
- 500 Delivery Robots, One Seven-Year Deal: How Robot.com Is Betting Big on Campus StreetsRobotics
- TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Event Applications Close TonightAI Business
- OpenAI's AI Agents Secretly Colonised a German Wiki and Spent Weeks Telling Each Other How to Break the RulesAI Security
- Instagram's AI Labels Are Flagging Real Photos and Missing Actual AI ImagesPolicy
- Why AI-Generated Food Looks So Wrong (and So Revolting)Explained
- OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Launch Turns Into a Waiting Room for Paying CustomersFrontier Labs
- Microsoft Puts a Name to Its Developer-First Windows: Project ZenithAI Business
- Ukraine is selling drone war data to AI companies, and the rules haven't caught upPolicy
- The AI Job-Hunt Doom Loop: Both Sides Are Using Bots and Nobody Is WinningEveryday AI
- Ugreen Wants to Run Your Entire Smart Home From a Box in Your Living RoomEveryday AI
- Why AI restaurant menus look weirdly perfect and slightly wrongEveryday AI
- OpenClaw's Major Overhaul: What It Means for Security and UsersAI Security
- AI Takes a 1956 Time Trip While a Comedian's Far-Right Rally Skit Gets a Second Life in the Daily MailEveryday AI
- Crusoe raises $3 billion at a $30 billion valuation as AI data centre demand keeps climbingAI Business
- Waymo opens in three new cities as the robotaxi race picks up speedRobotics
- Workers Worried About AI Job Loss, But Most Haven't Lost Their Jobs YetPolicy
- Perplexity's new hybrid AI keeps your sensitive files on your Mac while still using cloud intelligenceAI Security
- AI platform cuts delivery routing time from 20 minutes to two and a halfAI Business
- SB Energy files for IPO with a $3.2 billion loss and one giant customerAI Business
Thursday, September 3
- ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok All Went Down the Same Morning. Nobody Is Saying Why.Frontier Labs
- Mira Murati's AI Lab Is in Talks to Raise $1 Billion at a $40 Billion ValuationAI Business
- Medtronic Puts $700 Million Into Surgical Robot Maker Cornerstone RoboticsRobotics
- A startup is selling stripped-down AI with no guardrails. Anyone can sign up for free.AI Security
- Meta will slash your AI bill by 95% if you let it study how you use the modelAI Business
- GPT-6 Astra Is Here, and OpenAI Thinks It Might Mark the Birth of AGIFrontier Labs
- ChatGPT, Claude and Other Major AI Services All Went Down on the Same Thursday MorningFrontier Labs
- Ollie Wants to Run Your Family's Life Without Selling Your DataEveryday AI
- Google brings voice control to Gmail, Docs, and Keep with new AI assistantsEveryday AI
- Nvidia's Free PAIR Software Lets Every PC in Your Home Share the AI WorkloadEveryday AI
- ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all went down at the same timeFrontier Labs
- Google DeepMind's new WeatherNext 3 model aims to make forecasts sharper and further aheadScience & Space
- Google's New AI Weather Model Gives You Rain Forecasts Five Times Sharper Than BeforeEveryday AI
- John Lewis Is Building a YouTube Chat Show to Get Its Products Into AI Search ResultsAI Business
- Nvidia's RTX Spark Chip Powers the First Wave of AI-Focused Laptops and Mini PCsEveryday AI
- NeoMME Is a Tiny AI Model That Reads Documents Twice as Fast as Its RivalsAI Business
- Nvidia Buys Hugging Face for $12.93 BillionAI Business
- When the chatbot becomes a guru: the rise of 'AI psychosis'Everyday AI
- A Tiny AI Model Just Got a Big Boost With 100 Training Steps and a Free GPUExplained
- This Tool Gives Your Coding AI a Memory That Lasts Between SessionsExplained
- Police Are Using Flock's AI Camera Tool to Watch Anyone, Not Just CarsAI Security
- Self-Driving Truck Startup PlusAI Is Going Public at an $800 Million ValuationRobotics
- Bill Simmons Is Selling ChatGPT to His Listeners. His Writers Should Be Angry.Everyday AI
- Can an AI learn your taste? One researcher taught a coding model to paint watercoloursScience & Space
- The West Kept Waiting for China to Fail. Then China Shipped a Free AI That Rivals America's Best.Policy
- Cybersecurity Took Over Our Front Page This Week. Here Is What The Shape Of It Says.AI Security
- London's first robotaxis are now bookable on Uber, but only 15 cars are out thereRobotics
- Meta Drops AI Usage Quotas for Staff But Rolls Out a Powerful New AI AgentAI Business
- AI-Powered Cyber Attacks Push Companies to Rethink SecurityAI Security
- AI agents write the code now. Engineers design the walls that keep it honest.Explained
- Congress Warns AI Could Help Terrorists Plan Deadlier AttacksAI Security
- OpenClaw 2.0 turns a solo AI coding assistant into a team sportAI Business